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Our work for Dunkin Donuts won Gold at the Clio Awards. Let's celebrate with donuts!
Magnifique view from the deck of our Paris office.
On Days off, Dave Marsey pursues his passion for aviation.
On days off, Katrina Petrenko is a master hula hooper.
Every Monday we show how a different unicorn gets to work.
Our work for Stoli is out of this world.
Unicorns always save room for dessert.
Atlanta is known as the "City In a Forest." No wonder unicorns love working there.
Given the opportunity, we'll happily spray paint on virtual buildings!
On days off, Nicolas Thiboutot and Sarah Coutin hang with their yogurt-loving cat Alfred.
On days off, Sarah Ingram skips stones. See her story in the "People" section of our website.
Every Monday we show how a different unicorn gets to work.
Everybody loves slurping noodles! For Panzani we showcased some of the best slurpers in the world.
We proudly support LGBTQIAU pride.
Behind the scenes of a recent project for Radisson Blu.
Live streetcam view in front of our Brick Lane office.
On days off, Casey Blackwood tries to keep up with her daughter Lucy.
On days off, Martin Krafft skis deep powder.
Every Monday we show how a different unicorn gets to work.
Real unicorns live in VR.
Our Paris office terrace is so lovely that you can get lost in the view and accidentally wksdirgvdcnfw. Oops. Sorry about that.
Our work for Whirlpool won the Cannes Lions Grand Prix in Creative Data. Rosé all around!
Unicorns riding on unicorns. Enough said.
On days off, Advika Bhutt enjoys dancing in Mumbai's many discos.
On days off, Rhea Jhaveri spends quality time with her two dogs: Oscar and Fluffy.
Every Monday we show how a different unicorn gets to work.
Tina Fey recently had the pleasure of working with us ;)
A peak into our creative process.
Recording for Unicorns on Wax, Vol. 2 has begun. Meanwhile, listen to songs from Vol. 1 on our Boston, Hong Kong, and five other office pages.
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We would like to take a minute to Thank you for your interest in our site. Please browse through and take a look at our Pedigree's and Photo's. Check back from time to time and you will be sure to see changes and additions as we add on. Much like our home, we will probably forever be UNDER CONSTRUCTION;)). We hope you enjoy your visit.
We are a small kennel
Breeding the German Shorthaired Pointer breed and
Professionally Training all breeds of
Sporting Gundogs; to include Pointing Breeds, Flushing Breeds and Retrieving Breeds; located in the scenic farmlands, river valley's and mountains of Eastern West Virginia approx. 60 miles west of Martinsburg, WV/Winchester, VA and 30 miles south of Cumberland, Md. We breed 1 to 2 litters of
German Shorthairs a year for placement in good homes that actively hunt or compete, where pup is a member of the family and given the opportunity to do the job it was bred to do, as are our own
GSP's. The parents are hunted extensively on Grouse and Woodcock in West Virginia and Maryland, with occasional side trips to locations of interest in other states for various other gamebirds. We take great pride in
breeding a
German Shorthair with excellent temperament, personality, disposition and natural abilities for companionship in the home and in the field and fully back our pride with a written guarantee. Our lines are being proven in AKC Hunt Test, Field Trials and Conformation Events. We obtained our 1st Dam Martha "Calamity Jane" WVSD, aka: "Calamity" from our very dear friends, the Moore's, in White Lake, South Dakota in 1998 where hunting pheasants is not only a pleasure, but also a way of life. Our 1st Sire, Raines Dauernd derHund WVKS, aka: "Percy" was obtained from Kirby Rust of "Outback Kennels" located in Kensington, Kansas in 2003 and was selected to compliment Calamity Jane's abilities. We will be looking to the future with; Dalins Dealing Dalin VD Himmel SH, aka: "Dalin"; Dalins Bad Moon Rizn VD Himmel, aka: "Doodle", West Winds White Lightning, aka: "Lola" and Fast Himmel's New Groove, aka: "Groove"; all of whom we are currently "proving" through the various AKC Venues. They will be our future once fully health tested and proven. Our goal is to continue our "Search for the Perfect
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By Abhishek Takle
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Lotus Formula One driver Pastor Maldonado has cleared the air with Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez after picking up a grid penalty for sending the Mexican flying at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Venezuelan refused to take the blame for the incident, however, and told reporters in China on Thursday that the spectacular flip had been a normal racing incident.
Maldonado, who has made numerous trips to see the stewards in the past for his aggressive driving, was hit with a 10-second stop-and-go during the race and will lose five places on the starting grid for this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.
"I think talking with him it was a normal race contact, that's it," said the Venezuelan on a damp and grey afternoon at the Shanghai Circuit.
"He (Gutierrez) said 'I didn't see you' because -- it's difficult to say -- because the image is not that clear depending on which perspective you see.
"But he was completely out of the line and then at the exit of the corner he started to come on the line."
Gutierrez was turning into the tight first corner of the Sakhir circuit when Maldonado, who was exiting the pits, speared into the side of the Sauber.
The contact flipped Gutierrez's car into the air and caused it to roll, prompting an exclamation of surprise over the radio from the startled Mexican.
However Maldonado, who was also handed three penalty points on his superlicense, said the incident was not as spectacular as it appeared and suggested stewards needed to be more flexible when handing out sanctions.
"We need to avoid the incident but at the same time you cannot race," he said.
"You need to only stay on track and wait for problems of the others because if you attack and your maneuver is maybe not that clear, or maybe the guy is defending the place and you have a gamble or fighting for the place, you can be penalized.
"So maybe they need to be slightly more flexible. That's my opinion."
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By Kevin Siembieda
I'm back. My mobility is improving every day. Still in pain and I think I overdid it the last day or two trying to get caught up with things, because it is aching pretty good as I write this. Gonna keep this Update very short. In addition to feeling sore and tuckered out, I just received the shocking news that a dear friend, Randi Cartier, died this morning. The cause is unknown. I'm so stunned and saddened by this news I can barely think or write. Randi and her husband Roger have been dear friends for decades, and both have contributed to the Palladium Fantasy RPG® setting. She will be sorely missed. Our deepest condolences to Roger, family and friends.
Anime North, here we come
The guys are loading up the van for Anime North. I think we're all set for it. I need to print my character sheets for my games, bring my dice and get all my gaming stuff together, but other than that, I think I'm ready. I'm not allowed to drive with my broken arm, so Wayne will handle that. The morning will be crazy, because I have to get up very early to meet with my orthopedic doctor for my two week followup of my arm, get more X-rays, and get a zillion staples removed. That does not sound like fun. I hope to get good news about how the bone is mending. Then I head to the office and we hit the road for Anime North. I hope we get to game and chat with a number of you there.


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The Christmas Gift
- $1.59
- Published By: eXtasy Books
- Author: Gabriella Bradley
- Page: 22
- Word Count: 5500
- Publication Date: September 15, 2010
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- Categories: Erotic Romance, Short Stories
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Ariana enters a contest in a naughty magazine--to write a letter to Santa and tell him about her innermost desires. The prize? A midnight surprise on Christmas Eve. She doesn't expect to win at all, so when Christmas rolls around, she expects nothing more than the traditional Christmas like every other year. But... this Christmas she would remember for the rest of her life.
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Homework Hideout
Need a quiet place to study? No space in your room to set up books? Weve created a quiet space with Internet and limited free color printing, common school supplies and a community mentor to encourage students to create school work that they can be proud of! Open Monday-Thursday for students in grades 4-12.


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No. 3 UNH Skates To 3-3 Tie With No. 6 St. Lawrence
Oct. 24, 2009
Courtesy of UNH
CANTON, N.Y. – Brittany Skudder (Plainview, N.Y.) recorded a pair of goals to lead the third-ranked University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team to a 3-3 tie against sixth-ranked St. Lawrence University at the Appleton Arena on Saturday afternoon.
The Wildcats move to 5-1-2 and 1-0-0 against Hockey East opponents with the tie, as for the Saints, they adjust to 2-1-3 on the season.
New Hampshire would strike first in the contest as Skudder would find the back of the net on the first of her two goals on the afternoon, putting the puck past St. Lawrence goalkeeper Brittony Chartier at 3:48 on a power play. Julie Allen (Brampton, Ontario) and Courtney Sheary (Melrose, Mass.) were both credited with an assist on the play.
Nearly ten minutes later, the Saints would erase the early Wildcats lead, as Kayla Sullivan and Kelly Sabatine set up Michelle Ng with a goal in the 13th minute, knotting the score at 1-1.
The Wildcats wouldn't let the tie stand for long as Kelly Paton (Woodstock, Ontario) tallied her third goal of the season, burying the puck in the net at 17:23, giving UNH the 2-1 advantage at the end of the first stanza. Micaela Long (South Boston, Mass.) and Kristine Horn (Utica, Mich.) were each credited with an assist on the score.
New Hampshire would add to their lead in the following period, as Raylen Dziengelewski (Southwick, Mass.) and Sheary set up Skudder with her second goal of the afternoon at 15:15 on a UNH power play, giving the 'Cats a 3-1 lead heading into the final stanza.
St. Lawrence would strike back in the third as Sabatine punched in a goal off a pass from Vanessa Emond at 13:49, to cut the score down to 3-2 in favor of the visitors.
The Saints wouldn't waste much time getting on the board once again as Britni Smith and Edmond set up Sullivan for their final goal of the contest at 18:48, forcing overtime between the two squads.
The Wildcats would turn up the heat in the overtime period, tallying five shots in the final frame, but could not find the back of the net. The Saints finished with three shots in the stanza, all of which came in the final three minutes of play.
The Wildcats tallied 36 shots in the game, while the Saints finished with 33. Kelly Cahill (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Kailey Chappell (Pickering, Ontario) led the 'Cats with five shots apiece in the contest. Tara Akstull and Jamie Goldsmith led the Saints with five shots each.
Kayley Herman (Weyburn, Saskatchewan) finished with 30 saves in the contest for the Wildcats. As for St. Lawrence, Chartier led the way with 33 saves.
UNH returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 31 (5 p.m.) when they play host to Connecticut. Tickets for all women's hockey home games are available at www.unhwildcats.com or by calling the Whittemore Center box office.


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Sprint may have been the first to roll out the Android 4.1 update for the Samsung Galaxy S III, but T-Mobile customers can now join in on the party. We're received a handful of reports that the Jelly Bean update for the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III has started rolling out and T-Mobile has updated its handset support page with details of the new software update.
Android 4.1.1 for the T-Mobile's Galaxy S III will include Google Now, expandable notifications, Android Beam, automatic widget resizing, camera enhancements, improved Wi-Fi calling and slight tweaks to the keyboard. Of course it won't be stock Jelly Bean, but Samsung has added some useful features in the latest version of Touchwiz.
If you have not yet received the Android 4.1.1 update on your T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III, you can try to manually ping the update server by pressing Menu > Settings > About device > Software update. If that doesn't work, Samsung has also made the update available through Kies. The manual download and installation takes a bit longer, but it sure beats waiting another week or two for your Jelly Bean update.
Let us know if you have received the update yet and how you like all the new features included in Android 4.1.1.


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Alleged Skylar Diggins Naked Photos Hit the Net (Video)
Worldstar Hip Hop claim the photos above were from Skylar's early years at Notre Dame. Here is what I know and then you can come to your own conclusions.
About a week ago a gentleman contacted me claiming he had naked photos of Skylar Diggins. He wanted $10k for the photos and at that point my reaction was this.
The gentleman claimed that he would leak the photos and assured me they were real, not a fake like what happened to Skylar a couple of years ago.
I get offers like this almost daily, so I didn't think much about it, but I guess he carried through on his threat. Probably a scorn ex-boyfriend if you believe that is Skylar in the photos.
For the record, I am not sure they are or not, maybe the Photoshop experts will figure it out.


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Backing Up
Unexpected Behaviour
Backups Time Out / Marked as Bad
- Backup file size is too large so it takes too long to finish & server kills it. Try reducing backup size, excluding directories, disabling compression to speed up zip file generation, or getting host to enable native zip compression if not already enabled.
- Backup file location permissions do not allow writing. Give write permissions to the directory /wp-content/uploads/.
Fallback to Compatibility Mode (not necessarily a 'problem')
- The command line command 'zip' is unavailable. Ask host to allow access to it. Not available on Windows without using the zip package we provide (Ask Dustin about this until he documents it!)
- exec() function is disabled in PHP. Ask host to remove this block or remove it from the block list in cPanel if available. (Ask Dustin about this until he documents it!)
- They are using Windows. -- ask Dustin.
FTP Transfers Fail
- Login credentials are wrong. Test them to be sure. This is surprisingly common. View the HTML source to obtain the hidden password.
- The path entered is incorrect or the directory has not been created. BackupBuddy requires the path to already exist.
- Some hosts block outgoing FTP connections, port 21 (standard FTP port), and/or do not have the FTP extension available for their PHP installation. This can easily be tested by entering settings for a known working FTP or by taking the FTP settings the user entered and trying them in an FTP client.
Scheduled Events Fail to Trigger
- The scheduled date is wrong and has not passed.
- Not enough visitors are visiting to trigger the schedule. Someone must visit any page on the WordPress site on or after the scheduled time for the event to occur. If no one visits during the time-frame then the event may be missed or occur at an unscheduled time.
- The backup is failing. Test manual backups.
Error Messages
Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save result set in /www/wp-content/plugins/backupbuddy/backupbuddy.php on line 1673
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/wp-content/plugins/backupbuddy/lib/zip/zip.php on line 124
- exec() is disabled somewhere in PHP configuration. Ask the host to correct this or use cPanel to edit PHP settings to enable it if possible. See 'Fallback to Compatibility Mode' above.
Importing / Migrating with importbuddy.php
Unexpected Behaviour
The source site is now redirecting to the destination site (or vice versa):
- This occurs if the new database settings were not entered during Step 4 of importbuddy.php. Because of this, both sites are now sharing the same database so one of them (usually source) is redirecting to the other (usually destination). importbuddy.php needs to be re-run inputting the source URL on Step 4 and using the source database settings. This will reconfigure the source database to use its proper URL. Next importbuddy.php needs to be run again inputting the destination URL on Step 4 with the NEW database settings for the new database. This way both sites will have their own database for their respective URLs.
Links (permalinks) return 404 errors
- The .htaccess file was not configured properly or was not writable so importbuddy didn't update it.
- To fix log in to the admin dashboard and navigate to: Settings -> Permalinks and click 'Save Changes'.
- To manually fix, edit the .htaccess file in a text editor following the format on the .htaccess page.
Error Messages
ERROR #59233894: NOTE: Did you refresh after finishing the import? If so, [...]
- This error indicates that BackupBuddy was unable to detect the file 'backupbuddy_dat.php' in the current directory nor wp-content/uploads/temp_XXXXXX/backupbuddy_dat.php where XXXXXX are the random characters found in the ZIP file name. Verify the directory has write permissions. You can try editing importbuddy.php and changing the false in the following to true: $force_compatibility = false; You may also manually extract the ZIP file in the same directory using cPanel or your own software to continue to the next step.
500 Server Errors:
- .htaccess (click for details) file is causing URLs to be redirected improperly or is malformed.
- PHP is not functioning or enabled for the site. Check with basic phpinfo().
- A 404 error is occurring but the server is not set up correctly to return a 404. Do sanity check with .htm file.
The backup zip file is not found:
- The zip file has been renamed to a non-BackupBuddy format.
- The zip file permissions are wrong. Ex: Not readable.
- The zip file is not in the same directory as importbuddy.php.
- The zip file has not finished uploading or was interrupted in transit. If BackupBuddy was used to send it try manually uploading.


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- Tandoori-Style Lamb Chops
- 3 tips for authentic Indian cuisine
Don't have a tandoor brick oven in your kitchen? This marinated lamb is grilled or broiled on high heat to mimic the traditional taste.
Serves 4
Prep tip: You can also use lamb chunks to make kabobs.
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Garlic-Ginger Paste
2½ tablespoons Curry Spice
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
8 lamb chops, preferably loin or rib, about 6 ounces each, fat trimmed
- Heat oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add Garlic-Ginger Paste and cook for 1 minute. Add Curry Spice and salt, cooking for another minute. Transfer to a large bowl and stir in yogurt and cilantro. Add lamb chops, spreading yogurt mixture to coat all sides. Refrigerate at least 4 hours and up to 8-12 hours.
- Fire up a charcoal grill or heat a stovetop grill over medium-high heat. If broiling, heat broiler to 450°, placing rack 3-4 inches from heat. Remove chops from marinade. Grill or broil, basting often with marinade, 4-5 minutes on each side for medium-rare, adding 2-3 minutes each side for medium-done.
PER SERVING: 505 cal, 37% fat cal, 20g fat, 7g sat fat, 220mg chol, 72g protein, 5g carb, 1g fiber, 632mg sodium


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Literary Partners Program: Book Launch for Far from the Centers of Ambition
Please join editors Dr. Rand Brandes, Lee Ann Brown, and Leslie Rindoks for an evening celebrating a new two-volume collection Far from the Centers of Ambition, which honors the legacy of the famous Black Mountain College.
The evening will feature readings and a reception; books will be available.
Rand Brandes, Series Editor, is Lenoir-Rhyne University's Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English, and is the founder and director of L-R U's Visiting Writers Series. A recipient of two Senior Fulbright Fellowships to work with Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney in Dublin, Brandes has published widely in Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Poetry.
Lee Ann Brown, Confluence Volume Editor, was born in Japan, raised in Charlotte, NC, and now lives in New York City and Marshall, NC. She is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University, editor of Tender Buttons Press, and produces poetry in performance in NYC as Page Poetry Parlor, and in NC as The French Broad Institute.
Leslie Rindoks, Varve Volume Editor, is writer and designer originally from the Chicago area. She holds an MFA from Purdue University and studied at Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the executive editor at Lorimer Press and has written five books including A Town By Any Other Name.
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KTM Paving
The Ultimate Front Yard Makeover!
Get that curb appeal that all your neighbors will be jealous about! Enjoy a brand new asphalt paved driveway or if your driveway is already blacktopped a brand new seal coat will be applied. Also landscaping will be done to your front yard . Every home owners yard is different, so KTM Paving understands that you may need more of one or the other and we will customize your plan to fit your needs best!
KTM Paving, Inc. strives to be the best asphalt contractor in the Northland. Where quality is never compromised and their prices remain very competitive. For residential services they offer: Blacktop, Concrete, Excavating, and Asphalt Maintenance which includes seal coating and hot crack filling.
KTM Paving has over 30 years of experience, which has built a reputation on delivering what they promise in a professional efficient manner. Their trained and friendly staff is prepared to make your experience with KTM Paving proficient, educational, and above all else satisfactory from the start of your project until the job is done right.
Since there are no two jobs alike up here in the Northland, KTM Paving spends the time to ensure that your project is tailor made to your specifications. No detail is overlooked… Let KTM Paving be the one to put in your new blacktop driveway. Be part of the large and fast growing KTM family. They're definitely not satisfied until you are!
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Locum Dentist - Poole
Locum Dentist to join our well-established practice in Poole.
What we do matters. Our customers trust us with one of their most important assets, their smile. Patient care is our passion and we believe everyone deserves a happy and healthy smile, which is why we thrive on having the very best people in the industry working with us to ensure we all keep on smiling.
Here at Oasis Dental Care (now part of Bupa) our people are at the heart of everything we do, because we care. We have created environments where people can look forward to coming to work, feel empowered and benefit from working collaboratively with brilliant & talented experts. So joining us isn't just for a job, but a career.
As an Associate Dentist you'll be benefiting from a supportive practice team, a well-managed appointment book, exceptional development and opportunities to take you as far as you want to go; and that's just to mention a few, so what's not to love?
This exciting opportunity is available from October 2017 and also offers:
- 3 days Per week
- Long term maternity cover until31/08/2018
- Great Private earning potential
- Additional discount for utilising Oasis Labs
- Continuous Professional Development
The Practice: Established with 6 surgeries, modern working environment, fully computerized, digital x-ray, and fully Air Conditioned. Experienced longstanding associates, supported by a dedicated Dental Hygienist and a team of qualified professional support staff. Providing a 50/50 mix of NHS & Private, and in addition offering Practice Plan and Oasis Basics.


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Thanksgiving Cake
LITTLE did Carole know what her recipe would grow into when she shared it with the crafty CT kitchen folks! Citing its status in her family as a favorite bundt cake, she generously offered it for other readers to enjoy. Our cooks immediately agreed...but not before doubling everyone's pleasure. How so? The home economists noticed that the round, indented edges of Carole's cake resembled the gourd that provides the flavor. Soon, they'd baked two fluted cakes and put them together to form the orange orb. To do so yourself, follow the easy instructions here. You'll be glad you did —this cake is certain to conjure up a host of smiles for your event!—Carole Lajeunesse, Aurora, Colorado
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 40 min. + cooling
Makes12-16 servings
- 2 packages spice cake mix (regular size)
- 6 eggs
- 1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk
- 2 cups white baking chips
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting
- Red, yellow and green paste or liquid food coloring
- Red, yellow and green paste or liquid food coloring
- Textured paper towel
- 2 pastry bags or small heavy-duty resealable plastic bags
- 2 pastry bags or small heavy-duty resealable plastic bags
- Pastry tips-#5 round and #352 leaf
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mixes, eggs, pumpkin, oil and milk; beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Stir in chips. Fill two greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Pour remaining batter into two greased and floured 12-cup fluted tube pans.
- Bake at 350° for 20 minutes for cupcakes and 40-45 minutes for cakes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans for 25 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
- Level the bottom of each cake. Spread one cake bottom with frosting; put cake bottoms together to form a pumpkin. Set aside. Combine red and yellow food coloring to make orange; tint about three-fourths of the frosting. Tint remaining frosting green.
- Place one cupcake right side up in the center of the cake to support the stem. Put a dollop of green frosting on the cupcake and top with an upside-down cupcake; frost with green frosting. Frost the cake with orange frosting. Let stand, uncovered, until frosting is slightly firm, about 30 minutes.
- To create texture, place paper towel over frosting and press lightly, then remove.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry bag; insert round tip. Fill bag with green frosting. Pipe curly vines from pumpkin stem and base. Prepare another bag with green frosting; insert leaf tip. Holding bag at 45° angle, pipe leaves randomly along the vines. Combine coconut with green food coloring; sprinkle around base of cake.
Editor's Note: Cakes must be baked in identical cake pans or baked in two batches.
Originally published as Pumpkin Spice Cake in Crafting Traditions September/October 1997
My Review
Mar 16, 2015
I loved this cake. Pumpkin anything makes me happy, & I loved the versatility of decorating this recipe. I did use cinnamon and butterscotch chips in place of white chips & made my own frosting, but left everything else the same. I will make this again.
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FAIRBANKS — Scientists believe research on hibernation of black bears and ground squirrels at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Institute of Arctic Biology could contribute to treatment of heart attacks and strokes in humans as well as the long-term recovery of people after surgery and of soldiers' recovery from battlefield wounds.
The U.S. Army is particularly interested in the latter and U.S. medical researchers are increasingly interested in the former. Both are helping fund work at the institute.
In another program, researchers at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research, which is part of the Institute of Arctic Biology, have found a connection between consumption of Alaska Native subsistence foods — particularly sea mammals — in Yup'ik Eskimo people of Southwest Alaska and remarkably low levels of diabetes in comparison to the general Native population.
UAF has long been known as a research center for geophysics and northern studies, as well as its academic programs in wildlife. But in recent years the university has carved a niche in the biological sciences.
The National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense now provide funding for the institute's research.
Hibernation links
The link between animal hibernation and heart attack survival is one result that could come from work being done at the institute. Black bears live in captivity in an outdoor research facility at UAF in conditions similar to what they experience in the wild, in terms of seasonal hibernation, and Arctic ground squirrels are studied at the Toolik Field Station operated by the institute on the North Slope, an area where the squirrels live naturally.
"Our interest has been in the basic science of how these animals survive the winter but we're finding applications that are important for medicine," said Brian Barnes, director of the institute.
Barnes has researched Arctic ground squirrel hibernation for 25 years, but the Army became interested seven years ago.
UAF researchers have found that during hibernation the pulse in the animals slows dramatically and blood supply to the brain drops to as low as 2 percent of normal, Barnes said. Oxygen supply to the brain is also reduced.
Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine, who are now working with UAF, were in Fairbanks last January and performed heart bypass surgery on 12 Arctic ground squirrels that were in hibernation. The blood supply to two of the animals' bodies was cut off for 45 minutes.
"The animals were anesthetized during the surgery and bypass, including the 45 minutes when the pump supplying blood and oxygen were turned off. Then the bypass was ended and the animals revived," Barnes said. "The next day they were behaving normally and there was no evidence of harm to the heart or other organs."
Another surprise for researchers at UAF is that when the animals, both black bears and ground squirrels, resume activity in the spring there has been no loss of muscle or bone mass during the winter. This finding has direct implications for soldiers' long-term recovery after wounds.
"These animals are essentially doing six months' of bed rest with no loss of muscle or bone. We want to find out how they do it," Barnes said.
Human element
The possible genetic connection also has led UAF into the new medical research field of bio-informatics, which involves the analysis of huge sets of genetic data.
The UAF Institute of Arctic Biology's focus on "life sciences" includes people. The Center for Alaska Native Health Research is in a building adjacent to the Institute of Biological Sciences on UAF's west ridge research campus. Its researchers are working on a variety of programs related to rural health.
One that is attracting attention is the relation of nutrition and subsistence food to diabetes among Yupik Eskimos.
"We've suspected for a long time, and the village elders have suspected even longer, that eating traditional foods keeps people healthy longer," said Bert Boyer, director of the center and the principal investigator in research in the role genetics and nutrition in obesity and diabetes.
The project began with a study of increasing obesity in Yup'ik populations that researchers believed was linked to the increased consumption of western foods and less intake of traditional food. The initial focus on the research was to study this connection.
There are a number of complex health disorders linked to obesity, including diabetes and heart disease, and Boyer's primary objective was to see if there were genetic risk factors in these for Yup'ik populations.
A surprising discovery, however, was that rates of diabetes that is typically related to obesity was very low among the Yup'ik, and Boyer and other scientists believe this is linked to consumption of subsistence food like sea mammals and fish that are high in omega 3 fatty acids.
"Subsistence food is the original 'organic free range' diet, so this makes sense," Boyer said.
The connection is being further studied by the center, with support from the National Institute of Health.
Another scientist at the center, Andrea Bersamin, is working on related research on whether a program to increase subsistence consumption among Alaska Native teenagers can alter health indicators among young people.
Surveys are showing that young Yup'iks in Southwest Alaska aged 14 to 18 now depend on western foods for about 90 percent of their food consumption, compared to older Yup'iks, aged 60 and older, who depend on traditional subsistence foods for about 65 percent of their food, Bersamin said.
The center recently received a $1.12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to coordinate a "fisheries-to-schools" demonstration project in Southwest Alaska school districts, Bersamin will work with seafood processors in the region to supply fish like salmon, whitefish or herring, which are also traditional subsistence foods, for school lunch menus.
The project's initial goal is to find ways to package and prepare seafood on school lunch menus so that young people will eat more of it, to supply seafood-based school lunches to a group of Southwest Alaska schools, and then to consider how the nutritional effects can benefit health.


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This is our first week trying out the revamped Editors' Picks system. Click here for more details on how it will work. Now, in the comments section below, you can go call dibs on the recipe you'd like to test! For now, let's start with one recipe per person. And don't forget to send us your notes by next Tuesday!
Our Editors' Picks (these are the ones we've tested -- Congratulations!)
- Seared Scallops with Blood Orange, Mint and Feta Salsa
- Marinated Feta Cheese
- Homeric Leg of Lamb with Blood Orange Glaze, Fregola, Feta and Mint
Editors' Pick Candidates (these are the ones we want you to test)
- Blood Orange Tea Cake
- Blood Orange Glazed Chicken Wings with Minted Whipped Feta
- Lamb Chops with Blood Orange and Mint Compote and Feta Mash Potatoes
- Coriander and Mint Scented Feta and Blood Orange Salad Dressing
- Blood Orange Cardamom Cake with Mint Feta Ice Cream
- Crispy Stuffed Lamb Belly with Blood Orange Sauce
- Mint and Feta Stuffed Leg of Lamb with Balsamic Blood Orange Sauce
- Feta-Blood Orange Pots de Creme with Mint
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My question is that is Mahram subject to age? I. E. after a certain age (say 0 to 9,10 or 70s and 80s ect) is conditions of mahram applicable? What is the ruling on Mahram when Janazas are concern? (I.e. visiting a Janaza ect)Is same conditions applicable? Please explain?
This question covers three topics:
1 – The age at which a person is considered to be a valid mahram for a woman:
It was said that with regard to the mahram with whom a woman may travel, he should be a Muslim, male, an adult and of sound mind, and someone whom a woman is permanently forbidden to marry, such as her father, brother, paternal uncle, brother through breast-feeding (radaa'ah), father-in-law, etc.
2- With regard to being alone with a non-mahram woman (khulwah) (inside the city, i.e., not traveling), this is avoided by the presence of an adult mahram or an adult in front of whom they feel shy. The presence of a young child is not sufficient. Khulwah may also be avoided by the presence of another woman or another man, so long as there are no grounds for suspicion and there is no fear of danger.
(al-Fataawa al-Jaami'a li'l-Mar'ah, 3/935, 938)
Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said (9/109): "If a man is alone with a non-mahram woman, without there being a third person present, this is haraam according to the consensus of the scholars. Similarly, if the person with them is one of whom they do not feel shy because he is young, that does not avoid the forbidden khulwah."
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: "The person through whom khulwah is avoided must be an adult; the presence of a child is not sufficient. What some women think, that having a child with her avoids khulwah, is mistaken thinking." (Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 10/52)
3- With regard to women visiting graves, the more correct of the
two scholarly views is that visiting graves is not permissible for women.
See Question no. 8198 and no.
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Amber Tamblyn has joined the cast of CBS's latest cop show, Anatomy of Violence. According to Deadline, she'll play Abby, a young officer who partners with "maverick" FBI criminal psychiatrist Adrian Raines (Skeet Ulrich). The pilot comes from Homeland's Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, and Alex Cary, but the script is a straight police procedural: Raines wants to do things His Way, on account of his Dark Past! Abby can take cases too personally, on account of her own Dark Past! They learn form one another, and they solve crimes.


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Enormous challenges await southern Sudan after historic referendum
Southern Sudan will face enormous challenges and will need long-term support from the rest of the world regardless of the outcome of this week's referendum, aid agency Oxfam warned today. The vote could create the world's newest country, which would also be one of the least developed and home to some of the world's poorest people, the agency said.
After decades of war, southern Sudan is being built up almost from scratch. Over half of the people do not have access to clean drinking water. Three-quarters of its population is illiterate, and there are few schools, hospitals or roads. Oxfam said that localized conflicts are causing widespread suffering, with over 200,000 people forced to flee their homes in 2010. The agency urged world leaders not to forget Sudan once the referendum is over.
"The chronic poverty, lack of development and the threat of violence that blight people's daily lives will not disappear after the referendum. Whatever the outcome of the vote, these long-term issues need to be addressed. Failure to do so risks undoing any progress made in the past few years," said Melinda Young, head of Oxfam in southern Sudan.
Tens of thousands of southerners have arrived from northern Sudan in recent months, which Oxfam said is placing a significant strain on communities that already lack water, food, sanitation and shelter.
While the 2005 peace deal, which ended decades of brutal conflict, has brought considerable benefits to the south, many people have been frustrated at the lack of development and basic services. Hopes and expectations for after the referendum are even higher, and if these are not met it could potentially exacerbate tensions and fuel violence, Oxfam said.
"With a young population, abundant resources and fertile land, southern Sudan has the potential to build a successful nation – but only if it receives the support it needs. After so many years of war and suffering, southern Sudanese deserve to be able to access safe water and send their children to school. The world now needs to help them fulfil their hopes and aspirations," said Young.
Oxfam said diplomatic engagement on Sudan must continue after the referendum, as many key issues remain unresolved, such as the future of the disputed Abyei area and citizenship rights. Many community concerns are still to be addressed: Along the north-south border there is a risk of increased tensions between pastoralists migrating to find water and pasture, and local communities. Minority groups – such as southerners living in northern Sudan, and northerners in the south – must be assured of their rights and safety by both northern and southern authorities.
Civilians also need protecting from violence, Oxfam said, with frequent clashes over resources such as cattle and pasture exacerbated by the legacies of war such as the proliferation of small arms. The agency urged international donors and the Southern Sudan government to invest in building up the police force, which is poorly trained and ill equipped, and a justice system to serve the needs of the most vulnerable.
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Slideshow: Oxfam's humanitarian and livelihoods work in southern Sudan
Notes to editors
Oxfam has broadcast quality footage available for use, showing development needs in the south, recent arrivals from northern Sudan, and interviews with southerners about their hopes and fears.
Read Oxfam's new briefing note, "Beyond Sudan's big day: What next for one of the least developed places on earth?"
Oxfam spokespeople are available for interviews in southern Sudan.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Devin Gardner threw four touchdown passes, including a victory-sealing connection to Drew Dileo with 4:18 left, and the dual-threat quarterback wearing No. 98 to honor Tom Harmon ran for a score to lead No. 17 Michigan to a 41-30 win over No. 14 Notre Dame on Saturday night in front of an NCAA-record crowd of 115,109.
The Wolverines (2-0) had a pair of 14-point leads, but the Fighting Irish (1-1) refused to get routed.
Notre Dame pulled within a TD early in the fourth quarter when defensive end Stephon Tuitt made a diving interception in the end zone.
Kyle Brindza made a 40-yard field goal with 9:15 left to pull Notre Dame within four points.
The Irish were called for pass interference twice on the ensuing drive and Gardner later took advantage with a 4-yard TD to Dileo.
Tommy Rees threw a second interception with 1:29 left.
Michigan has won four straight at home against the Irish.
That winning streak will stand for a while because the two storied programs won't play at the Big House again anytime soon. Notre Dame opted out of its contract with the Wolverines, making next year's game in South Bend, Ind., the last guaranteed matchup in a series that dates to 1887 and canceling three previously scheduled games.
Soon after the Irish walked off the field, the "Chicken Dance" blared and fans danced in the stands. Four months ago, Michigan coach Brady Hoke told a group of Wolverines supporters that Notre Dame was "chickening out" of the series.
Gardner got the last laugh on the field. He was 21 of 33 for 294 yards. His one interception was costly, though. Trying to avoid a sack in the end zone, he flipped a pass to no one in particular that Tuitt came up with to give Notre Dame hope.
Gardner also ran 13 times for 82 yards and a score.
Michigan's Jeremy Gallon had career highs with three TDs and 184 yards receiving. Fitzgerald Toussaint gave the Wolverines just enough of a running game, gaining 71 yards on 22 carries and he also turned a short pass into a 31-yard catch on the final scoring drive.
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Once again, we want to give a big thanks to all of our volunteer recipe testers for your thoughtful comments and for helping us continue to strengthen our recipe recommendations. You can read each tester's comments by clicking through to the recipes. And even if the recipe you tested wasn't chosen as an EP, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
Congratulations to another great batch of Editors' Picks!
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Three Ways to Manage Conflict in the Workplace
Congratulations! You've got the position you wanted in your firm or company of choice. Now it's time to begin work.
After a few months of working, everything seems to be moving along fine. You have a good relationship with your boss and management is very vocal about supporting you as an up-and-comer. There's only one problem—without realizing it, one of your team members seems to have morphed from nice to nasty, creating a situation that plays you against another one of your co-workers.
You seem to remember someone, at some time, saying something about how to deal with conflict in the workplace, but let's face facts: You can't really be trained on how to deal with conflict no matter how many seminars you go to or the number of books you read. At some point, you'll either burst from too much frustrated combustion, or you'll simply give in and play the nasty person's game.
What's wrong with this scenario? According to Tamera Loerzel, one of the speakers at the August 2012 E.D.G.E. Conference, conflict occurs because of differing views between two or more people.
"If we all thought or acted the same, came from similar backgrounds and experiences, and had similar personalities, we wouldn't have conflict because we'd all be alike," says Loerzel, a partner with ConvergenceCoaching LLC. "Not only would that be boring, but we would be confined to a certain size box with limitations to our opportunities and possibilities. With our diverse backgrounds, experience, knowledge, opinions, and personalities, we are able to generate unlimited ideas and solutions—if we can figure out how to communicate so that all ideas are heard and respected."
In her presentation, Loerzel presented four types of personalities in the workplace: Avoider, Accommodator, Confronter, and Compromiser. Although most of us may be one or a combination of any of these four personalities, she also presented a fifth option—the one we want to strive to be: the Collaborator, defined as someone who participates or assists in a joint effort to accomplish an end.
"When we collaborate, we are working toward a common good or result, and when possible, to also meet each individual's self-interest," she says. "This requires identifying what our own and our conflict partner's self-interest is—which we don't often do, especially in business."
The key is getting to the "root cause" of the conflict; if you do not do that, the conflict will keep occurring again and again.
"When you collaborate, you are working to get to the root cause of the situation, giving up that your view and solution for the situation is right by listening to your conflict partners' view and learning what their self-interest is. Then, together, you can generate a solution that appeals to your common commitment as well as to each of your self-interests."
Loerzel offers three ways to manage conflict in the workplace:
Honest and open communication, which includes not stepping over an issue. Be willing to share your perspective. A great way to start is by saying, "I've noticed," "I wonder," or "It occurs to me that …" Through this type of dialog, you're taking full responsibility for your opinion and you reduce the need for others to become defensive.
Avoid triangulating. Triangulating is when you talk or complain about an issue to someone other than the individual with whom you have the complaint. This is also known as gossip and can be deadly in organizations—and for your career. Instead, go directly to the individual and approach the conversation as a fact-finding mission to uncover information about what happened. Then, you can collaborate toward a solution.
Resist making the other person wrong and being judge, jury, and executioner. Before reacting to a situation that has upset, disappointed, or frustrated you, generate some possible hopeful interpretations about what happened. There may not be a conflict; it may just be a misunderstanding or lack of complete information. If you react to a situation from blame or something wrong, you're likely to create a conflict or, at a minimum, hurt feelings. There's merit to the old adage to count backwards from 100 and come up with what may be as many as three to five hopeful interpretations before speaking to the other person.
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Ken Smith and Lisa Madden Balivet were married in an afternoon ceremony hosted by John and Viola Hansen at the Hansen Homestead at Stariski on July 4, 2013. Officiant Laura Hansen performed the ceremony. Elliot Bond was the ring bearer and his sister, Ally Bond, daughter of Brent and Heidi (Hansen) Bond of Seattle, was the flower girl.
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Matt Simek - "Terrible duties" for Americans
While the Great American Experiment of self-governance was still in the blush of youth, poet and author Walt Whitman wrote a brilliant treatise on the American spirit, "Democratic Vistas" (1872). In this work, he asked a critical question:
"We have had founded for us the most positive of lands. The founders have pass'd to other spheres but what are these terrible duties they have left us?"
Over time, that founding principle of citizen involvement in "self-government" has eroded. When I look around today, I see people avoiding those "terrible duties" that make government work, that improve the lot of mankind, and that would keep America "the most positive of lands." We expect government to do things without our involvement, and we find ways to weaken the government created by the Founders by declaring government to be the problem rather than the solution to many problems.
We have allowed ourselves to wander far from Lincoln's notion of government "of the people, by the people, for the people" toward a modern view of government "of those people, for some people, against most people." We see government today as either a parent or an enemy, depending on our personal points of view. In our us vs. them notion of government, we are rapidly losing the sense that we are the essential part of its success. In the words of Walt Kelly's famous comic strip character Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
American education used to teach "civics" lessons about responsibility and duty, and how our experiment in self-government was designed to work. I remember taking a required course on the Constitution in seventh grade, with a wonderful red book that included the document with annotations in the margins about each Article's meaning.
We have mostly given up on that teaching, preferring instead to focus on the insane pursuit of wealth, at whatever cost. We have largely forgotten about building a nation of citizens united in common purpose. Today's vision of America, for many citizens, is a simple geographical boundary for autonomous individuals, where people are allowed to do whatever they damn well please.
The attitude is, "It's all about me." Is that what "freedom" is really about?
Long ago we strayed from a devotion to duty, to become a population devoted to entitlement. Part of this can be laid at the feet of liberals, who want to support and nourish all downtrodden souls. But conservatives are equally at fault, taking advantage of government roads and bridges, clean water and air, medical research, safe air travel, secure trade, business incentives, raw materials, tax breaks, and tens of thousands of other programs and services, while complaining bitterly that government regulation stands in the way of accumulating more wealth at the expense of others.
In our homes, few teach children about duty and responsibility, rather how to get the latest iPad, the newest video games, or the most wealth with the least work and at the cheapest price. We are a nation of privilege and expectation, liberal and conservative alike, and it gets worse with every succeeding generation. And we see government as both the source of, and the barrier to, our personal gain, all the while resenting our contributions to the good of all.
As a nation, we are approaching the moral edge. Many conservatives think of the moral edge in religious term. I think of it in terms of what we are as a nation of free people.
But what are we free to do? Free to pillage and cheat and buy cheap, or free to pursue the Great Experiment in which citizens take responsibility for their nation and everyone in it? Free to take the most for the least, or free to carry out their duties of citizenship? Free to dodge government while demanding personal "Freedom!" or free to make this a better, stronger, more generous nation through contributions for the good of the whole?
Free to brandish deadly weapons in public places, or free to preserve, protect, and defend the nation's position in the world peacefully? What kind of free people do we really want to be?
I once met a young Ivy League law school graduate and asked her about modern legal education. She said most of the courses are now focused on how lawyers can serve their clients (and their own firms) in making profits; contract law, tort law, malpractice law, privacy law, product safety law, and so on.
I asked her, with all of the new courses being added, what is falling off the back end? She said — and these are her exact words — "Well, Constitutional Law is now an elective." That was about 30 years ago, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. That gave me great concern. Does our Constitution apply only when it is convenient to us?
Unless we can put this total focus on personal gain aside and deal with Whitman's "terrible duties," I fear for what kind of future we have ahead of us as a once-great nation.
Guest writer Matt Simek earned a master's degree in broadcast communications and communication theory from the University of Oregon in 1975. His work has included writing and producing award-winning national documentaries, creating physician training programs through his company, Pacific Standard Television, and teaching television production. He is a passenger rail service advocate in Yamhill County, and coordinates the Classic Fire Apparatus Show for the Newberg Old Fashioned Festival.


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1. can you just swap the hard drive out with the one I have now and it will still recognise the recordings? I think the box is a Amstrad DRX280 (from the compatibilty list) therefore has 'big' endian format.
2. If possible, will anytime now take up 250gb instead of the 80gb?
3. If this is not possible, will the workaround this be: 1. Back up my existing recordings onto my PC. 2. Insert my 750gb into the new sky+hd box and perform a FSR so it will format the drive correctly. 3. Remove the hd from box and copy back the recordings onto the drive?
4. I will contemplate upgrading to a larger drive, am I understanding correctly that at the moment most 1tb drives are compatible with most of the sky+hd boxes (leaving 750gb recording space)? 1.5tb/2tb drives are only compatible with the newer Amstrad boxes but I will need to have a fiddle to get the box working with a beta version of copy+ and I wont be able to restore my existing recordings.
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Our presentation shows how to wed the two technologies F# and GPUs with the help of Alea.CUDA. Alea.CUDA is our new framework and compiler service for GPU computing. It extends F# with the key CUDA concepts and allows to compile F# code quotations to an executable GPU code. I will briefly introduce Alea.CUDA and show you – by means of several live coding examples – how it can be used to develop GPU algorithms entirely in F# with the full flexibility of CUDA-C. Besides getting an understanding of the main features of Alea.CUDA you will become familiar with some of the basic GPU computing paradigms. To round off the presentation I shall reveal some of the implementational aspects of Alea.CUDA.
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Summary of Board decisions are provided for the information and convenience of constituents who want to follow the Board's deliberations. All of the conclusions reported are tentative and may be changed at future Board meetings. Decisions are included in an Exposure Draft for formal comment only after a formal written ballot. Decisions in an Exposure Draft may be (and often are) changed in redeliberations based on information provided to the Board in comment letters, at public roundtable discussions, and through other communication channels. Decisions become final only after a formal written ballot to issue an Accounting Standards Update.
June 19, 2013 FASB Board MeetingDisclosure Framework. The Board discussed forward-looking disclosure information, the decision questions in Chapter 2 of the FASB Invitation to Comment, Disclosure Framework, and staff-suggested revisions to the technical plan.
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- The Board agreed that the following items relating to the future would be appropriate for consideration by the Board in establishing disclosure requirements:
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- The Board discussed some of the decision questions and indicated disclosures in Chapter 2. Those questions are being considered as the basis of a decision process for the Board to use in establishing disclosure requirements. Most of the questions and indicated disclosures discussed related to information about other past events and existing conditions that may affect future cash flows. Some of the respondents to the Invitation to Comment suggested that the indicated disclosures would encourage the Board to require disclosure of "forward-looking" information in the notes to financial statements that would be granted "safe harbor" if included in Management's Discussion and Analysis. The Board decided that the questions address appropriate issues but that some of the indicated disclosures should be modified to focus more sharply on past events and existing conditions. The Board specifically identified the following changes and directed the staff to consider whether other indicated disclosures might need similar modifications:
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Taking good citizenship to heart
Eliza Hallett has a lot of fun in her activities at McMinnville High School, and there are many, ranging from Ultimate Frisbee to Model United Nations.
But having fun isn't her only motivation, the senior said. Her activities keep her in touch with friends and make her feel more connected to her school.
Besides, many of them, such as organizing this year's Mr. Mac High contest, have a serious purpose. "I get a lot of satisfaction from knowing I'm doing things that help other people," she said.
Eliza's numerous service, academic and extracurricular activities helped earn her nomination as Mac High's candidate in the local Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen award program this year.
As the school winner, she wrote an essay on "Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It." As a result, she was named Yamhill Chapter's 2013 Good Citizen winner, and is now competing for regional honors.
Eliza was surprised and pleased when her name was announced at the DAR meeting this month. She said the other school winners — Katie Wilson of Amity High, Brook Wilson of Willamina High and Molly Martinez of Sheridan High — were very deserving.
"I just felt honored to be nominated," she said. "I feel proud that others see me as embodying the Good Citizen ideals."
In her essay, Eliza addressed the question, "How are our freedoms and responsibilities as good citizens changing?"
She noted the increasing diversity of our nation and our increasing connection to the rest of the world. But neither fact takes away from our need to protect our national identity, she wrote.
We shouldn't take lightly our freedom to hold our own opinions and make our own decisions, she wrote. "Although blessed with the option of only listening to a specific news source, good citizens are responsible for gathering information from multiple sources and making informed judgments," she wrote.
Americans should learn about the rest of the world, Eliza wrote. And we should learn about and participate in our own community and nation, she added, quoting John F. Kennedy's line, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
"To me, this is the essence of a good citizen," she wrote. "Doing all I can in my own community will lead to a strong and unified national identity. That is truly our perpetual job as Americans."
Eliza, the daughter of Joy and David Hallett, has lived in McMinnville since infancy. She has a younger sister, Lillian, who is a freshman at Mac High.
Since she started high school, Eliza has been involved with the school leadership program, Habitat for Humanity Club, Environmental Club, Key Club and National Honor Society. She has also participated in track and cross country.
Outside school, she has been on the YAHOO mission to build houses in Mexico and been active in the youth group at the First Baptist Church. She also works at Red Fox Bakery.
She served as assistant director of the Mr. Mac High pageant for two years before becoming the director this year. She feels privileged to be involved with the contest, because it raises thousands of dollars for Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
"I had less of an appreciation for where the money went before I visited the hospital," she said. "Going there was really eye-opening."
She's impressed with Doernbecher, she said, because it is designed to make children feel more at home while they are being treated. "It makes it more welcoming and less scary for kids," she said.
Traveling to Nicaragua with other students from a Chemeketa Community College class also gave her a new perspective.
Her father, who works for Chemeketa, went along. "It was cool to do something with my dad," she said.
The Oregon visitors helped the AMOS Health and Hope organization, which works to empower local people to help themselves. Eliza, who speaks Spanish, spoke with local families in addition to testing children for anemia.
It was both humbling and exciting, she said, noting, "It made me feel like I can be part of something."
The trip, which she will repeat this year, also helped focus her career interests on public health. "You can help so many people this way," she said.
Eliza plans to attend college next year — possibly the University of Oregon's Honors College. She said she wants to learn about international community development in addition to majoring in biology or a related field.
After she receives her undergraduate degree, she said, she may join AmeriCorps or the Peace Corps.
"I love to travel," she said. "I can't think of a better way to do that than be going somewhere to help people."
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The Yamhill Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution presented awards to four high school seniors who were school winners of its annual Good Citizen contest.
The DAR chapter invited all area high schools to participate by nominating a winner who demonstrates dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. School winners compete in the countywide contest, in which they are judged on the basis of their participation in school and community activities, academics and an essay about "Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It."
This year's school winners are:
Katie Wilson, daughter of Kristi and Robert Wilson, was nominated for the honor by her teachers at Amity High School.
She is involved in band, robotics, Ecology Club, National Honor Society and leadership activities, and has played volleyball and golf at Amity High. She plans to attend college next year and become a high school teacher, then a college professor.
Brook Wilson, daughter of Barry and Brenda Wilson, represented Willamina High School. She has been involved in FFA, NHS, student leadership and sports, including volleyball, basketball, track and field, soccer and softball.
After college, Brook plans to become a pediatric nurse.
Molly Martinez, daughter of Lynn and Aaron Martinez, was Sheridan High School's winner. Active in FFA, she has helped with Food for All and Christmas food box giveaways, worked in the SHS concession stand and volunteered at the James2 soup kitchen. She has been to Mexico on a mission trip to build houses.
Eliza Hallett, daughter of Joy and David Hallett, represented McMinnville High School. She is active in numerous clubs and organizations at Mac High and has traveled to Mexico and Nicaragua with assistance programs. She is interested in international medical work.
Hallett also was named the overall winner, becoming the Yamhill County Good Citizen of 2013.


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